The Charlie Kirk Show - November 26, 2025


What to Be Thankful For in 2025


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On this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colbitt and Blake Neff talk about the Fannie and Fanny Willis case and how it relates to the Trump administration. They also discuss the lack of evidence in the case against Donald Trump.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:13.000 All right.
00:01:13.000 Happy Wednesday.
00:01:14.000 It's the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:15.000 I'm Andrew Colbitt, executive producer of this fine show, joined by Blake Neff.
00:01:19.000 It is the day before Thanksgiving.
00:01:22.000 Yeah, we have a lot to be thankful for this year.
00:01:26.000 In spite of the tragedy, in spite of the loss, and I think, Blake, you said it best, even especially in the midst of what's been a really rough season, we have to practice the discipline of being thankful, being grateful for the mercies of God, the blessings of God Almighty.
00:01:42.000 And we will do that in this show.
00:01:44.000 We are going to spend probably the second half of this hour doing that.
00:01:48.000 First, we've got a couple breaking news stories that we want to get to.
00:01:51.000 First, big breaking news story this morning.
00:01:54.000 Blake Neff, the state of Georgia, is basically refusing or declining to pursue its case, the Fannie Willis case, against Donald J. Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and many others.
00:02:10.000 This is a fitting end, but kind of a whimper in what was a main huge story of 2024.
00:02:17.000 Yeah, I wanted us to start with this because I think it actually perfectly encapsulates the life arc of a lot of things we've lived through in the Trump era.
00:02:26.000 There's how many times have the walls been closing in about 50,000 different times?
00:02:30.000 There was a meme video of the walls are closing in, how often they said it, in I think 2016 or early 2017.
00:02:37.000 And it's just been the same way ever since.
00:02:40.000 So when Trump was out of office, they waited a few years.
00:02:42.000 They didn't do anything initially.
00:02:45.000 And then suddenly, 2023, they thought, let's roll out all of these indictments of Trump, Manhattan in Georgia, and then the two federal cases.
00:02:54.000 Eugene Carroll, the business case, of course, yeah, the business case, the Carol Jordan case.
00:02:59.000 All of these things to take him down.
00:03:00.000 And a lot of them, they'll superficially look formidable.
00:03:04.000 He's got four different criminal indictments and all these civil cases.
00:03:08.000 And what has always stood out to me is how every single one of them has some insane flaw, either unprecedented use of the law, of law and law faith.
00:03:20.000 A total novel reinterpretation.
00:03:21.000 I remember, remember, this case, the Fulton County case, it included in the indictment that as part of his conspiracy to do various bad things, that Trump encouraged people to turn on OAN to watch, I believe, the Georgia legislature hold a hearing.
00:03:38.000 That was part of the conspiracy.
00:03:40.000 I believe another part of his conspiracy was encouraging, was that he called lawmakers, I believe.
00:03:48.000 He called lawmakers and urged them to vote a certain way on legislation, which I will observe is part of the First Amendment, your right to petition lawmakers for redress of grievances.
00:03:58.000 I believe that extends to the president.
00:04:00.000 They had things like this.
00:04:01.000 And then, in case you've forgotten, Fannie Willis also hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, onto the case.
00:04:08.000 They paid him, I believe, over $600,000.
00:04:10.000 They were taking luxury vacations.
00:04:12.000 They tried to lie about the fact that they were in a relationship.
00:04:15.000 He, I believe, might have left his wife or girlfriend as part of this.
00:04:19.000 There was a whole sordid background to that.
00:04:21.000 All of this I bring up to you again.
00:04:23.000 And now we've come here.
00:04:25.000 Nothing came of it.
00:04:26.000 It ended in total humiliation.
00:04:28.000 They have to drop the case.
00:04:30.000 Millions of dollars were wasted. 1.00
00:04:32.000 So Big Fanny Willis could look like a big superstar. 0.54
00:04:36.000 And so many things are like that. 0.94
00:04:39.000 All of the Trump criminal cases were ultimately like this.
00:04:41.000 Even the one where he got convicted, huge problems with it.
00:04:44.000 I think it would have gone down in court eventually.
00:04:46.000 You're talking about the E. Gene Carroll case.
00:04:48.000 No, not the Carroll case, the Manhattan.
00:04:50.000 Oh, yeah, of course.
00:04:52.000 So just one thing after another, they would bring up these cases that are half-baked. 0.99
00:04:58.000 They're entirely politically motivated.
00:05:00.000 And they go down to an embarrassing defeat.
00:05:02.000 You mean the Manhattan case where he successfully paid back his bank loans?
00:05:07.000 No, This is the one where they said that he was engaging in what was the election case.
00:05:16.000 You know, it was with you're talking about with Stormy Daniels.
00:05:18.000 Yes.
00:05:18.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:05:19.000 Stormy Daniel.
00:05:19.000 The Hush Mono case.
00:05:20.000 Where they said it was an illegal campaign contribution to allegedly play Hush Money.
00:05:25.000 And then also that it was a felony because he was covering up a federal crime that the federal government had never charged him with, had in fact investigated and declined to charge him for.
00:05:36.000 And then they tell the jury, you can just pick whatever crime you feel like might have been covered up.
00:05:40.000 You don't even need to unanimously agree on a crime.
00:05:44.000 Well, all of these things are like that.
00:05:45.000 And so we wanted to open that because today is Thanksgiving.
00:05:49.000 Well, today's audience.
00:05:50.000 And you can.
00:05:51.000 Not today.
00:05:52.000 Yeah.
00:05:52.000 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
00:05:54.000 Thank you, Andrew.
00:05:56.000 Fact check.
00:05:56.000 Yeah.
00:05:57.000 And so.
00:05:58.000 So, but all this, you know, this is what gets me: there's another round of this that seems to be about to pop off.
00:06:05.000 And now Bloomberg has somehow gotten its hands on a leak between a Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, special envoy appointed by President Trump to handle Ukraine-Russia issues.
00:06:17.000 He's been traveling all over the world working on peace negotiations and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy advisor.
00:06:26.000 So this is a new story breaking today, Blake, where it seems to be a story where I instantly want to ask Cui Bono, who benefits, right?
00:06:38.000 Because if you let's go through the paces here.
00:06:40.000 So there was a 28-point peace plan that was leaked, right?
00:06:44.000 First leak.
00:06:45.000 And by the way, Jack Posobiec actually predicted that there was going to be a leaked phone call yesterday, which is pretty remarkable because it came out today, or it came out last night.
00:06:54.000 And there was a 28-point peace plan, which was widely derided by the foreign policy establishment as too pro-Kremlin.
00:07:00.000 So then we get the EU coming in, and we get a follow-up peace plan, which is much more, let's say, pro-Ukrainian.
00:07:09.000 There was basically, you had made the point earlier this week, Blake, that the 28-point peace plan was somewhat remarkable in the sense that it actually included a provision where the U.S. would identify portions of formerly Ukrainian land as now Russian land and territory.
00:07:29.000 That's a pretty big deal.
00:07:31.000 So this one, the new peace plan does not necessarily have that.
00:07:35.000 It has a doesn't have a cap on the size of the Ukrainian military.
00:07:40.000 There's other things that you obviously interpret as more pro-Ukrainian, pro-Europe, right?
00:07:45.000 There's basically a NATO Article 5 type security guarantee involved in the new plan.
00:07:50.000 So it's much, much more pro-Ukrainian.
00:07:52.000 I think the 28-point plan is much more pragmatic and probably realistic where this is going to finally end out in the end.
00:08:00.000 But now we have a leak, and you have to ask: why would somebody leak this phone call between Witkoff and Ushakov?
00:08:09.000 So the call is essentially, I think, a nothing burger, but it's being made much of in the press because it appears to them and the way they're painting it is that Witkoff is playing ball with the Russians, coaching the Russians on how to sell this peace plan to Trump, right?
00:08:27.000 Trump, you're the peace president, you know, kind of glazing President Trump, giving his ego a boost.
00:08:35.000 And I think that this is completely par for the course.
00:08:38.000 This is standard operating procedure, standard negotiation tactics.
00:08:42.000 And I believe the president agrees.
00:08:44.000 Let's go ahead and play Cut 232.
00:08:47.000 This audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you and get on a good sign?
00:08:56.000 No, but that's a standard thing.
00:08:57.000 You know, because he's got to sell this to Ukraine.
00:09:00.000 He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia.
00:09:02.000 That's what he's what a dealmaker does.
00:09:04.000 You got to say, look, they want this.
00:09:06.000 You've got to convince them of this.
00:09:08.000 You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.
00:09:12.000 Blake, do you think that's a standard form of negotiation?
00:09:14.000 I don't, whether it's standard in diplomacy, it's standard with what Trump does.
00:09:17.000 Trump is a real estate guy.
00:09:20.000 Trump is a guy who is he likes Witcoff because Witkoff negotiates the way I think Trump likes to make deals.
00:09:28.000 And I think of how you might make deals in the business world.
00:09:32.000 It probably would be normal to tell someone, hey, before you talk to this guy, here's how you're going to make sure this conversation goes well.
00:09:38.000 That is a normal conversation that you will have if you are in a business world of negotiation.
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00:11:16.000 So, we're going to play a clip.
00:11:18.000 Somebody created an AI-generated version as opposed to me reading this back and forth between Steve Witcoff and his Russian counterpart.
00:11:25.000 We're going to play it for you so that you can hear directly what was being said.
00:11:29.000 And then we're going to relate it to what happened in 2019 with Vinmin.
00:11:33.000 The other leak.
00:11:35.000 I don't know what happens with Ukraine and our intelligence agencies.
00:11:39.000 Was it MI6?
00:11:40.000 Was it the Europeans? 0.98
00:11:42.000 Was it Ukrainians? 0.85
00:11:44.000 Who leaked this?
00:11:44.000 Cui bono.
00:11:46.000 That is the question.
00:11:47.000 And it just strikes me that the foreign policy establishment is more outraged a possible peace deal than they are that our intelligence is getting leaked to Bloomberg.
00:12:01.000 It's an AI-generated version, but I think it does a good job of giving you the brief of what this leak call entails.
00:12:07.000 265.
00:12:08.000 I'm even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza.
00:12:14.000 We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace.
00:12:19.000 And I'm thinking maybe we do the same thing with you.
00:12:22.000 My point is this.
00:12:23.000 Okay, okay, my friend.
00:12:25.000 I think that the very point our leaders could discuss.
00:12:29.000 Hey, Steve, I agree with you that we will congratulate.
00:12:33.000 He will say that Mr. Trump is a real peaceman and so-and-so.
00:12:37.000 That he will say, maybe he says President Trump.
00:12:40.000 You know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace.
00:12:44.000 And that could be something that we might move the next time.
00:12:47.000 AI is not good enough to justify that infliction upon us.
00:12:52.000 Yeah, that was actually the wrong version.
00:12:56.000 There's another one that's going around, which was much better.
00:12:58.000 But the point is, there was coaching going on.
00:13:00.000 You don't want a better one because then people will think it's the real phone call.
00:13:03.000 Well, that's true.
00:13:03.000 But, I mean, this was a phone call.
00:13:05.000 It was trying to be, it was supposed to be a reenactment.
00:13:07.000 That was a bad version of that.
00:13:09.000 But the point is, they're trying to coach President Trump, and everybody's saying, oh, look, the Kremlin's too involved.
00:13:15.000 But this all strikes me as a throwback to the 2019 Vinmin leak, right?
00:13:22.000 And there is this amazing, amazing cut here that I'm going to pull up in just a second.
00:13:28.000 Basically, you have Vinman testifying before Congress, and, you know, then Adam Schiff jumps in to protect Vinman.
00:13:38.000 And it is this really telling moment that just is, I'm having, I'm having flashbacks to 2019, so you have to have them with me too.
00:13:47.000 Let's go ahead and play cut.
00:13:49.000 I believe this would be 233.
00:13:53.000 Did you discuss the July 25th phone call with anyone outside the White House on July 25th or the 26th?
00:14:00.000 Yes, I did.
00:14:02.000 My core function is to coordinate U.S. government policy, interagency policy.
00:14:06.000 And I spoke to two individuals with regards to providing some sort of readout of the call.
00:14:16.000 Two individuals that were not in the White House.
00:14:18.000 Not in the White House.
00:14:19.000 If I could interject here, we don't want to use these proceedings.
00:14:23.000 It's our time.
00:14:24.000 I know, but we need to protect the whistleblower.
00:14:26.000 Oh, need to protect the whistleblower.
00:14:29.000 The whistleblower.
00:14:30.000 So this is how this happens.
00:14:31.000 That was just, that's such a bizarre episode in hindsight, that entire whistleblower saga where there was someone who was just making allegations against the president that were ridiculous.
00:14:42.000 And then people, hundreds, thousands of people knew who this person was, but you couldn't say their name on television because they were the whistleblower.
00:14:53.000 It was Eric Sierramela.
00:14:54.000 That was the name right?
00:14:55.000 Shimmarella.
00:14:56.000 I can't pronounce these name.
00:14:56.000 Whatever.
00:14:58.000 So, yeah, he was the whistleblower.
00:15:00.000 But basically, what that was was an instance of somebody got a readout of the call, thought it wasn't good, and then accused the president, which ends up resulting in crazed impeachment proceedings.
00:15:14.000 So these are the stakes that we're playing with.
00:15:17.000 And never forget, you know, six ways to Sunday.
00:15:20.000 The Intel agencies have six ways to Sunday of getting you.
00:15:25.000 The notorious warning from the good Chuck Schumer, who's now up against it.
00:15:30.000 By the way, his approval rating in New York is in the low 30s.
00:15:33.000 It's the lowest that he's ever had.
00:15:36.000 His back against the wall.
00:15:37.000 We could play the cut.
00:15:38.000 Why not?
00:15:39.000 244.
00:15:41.000 To take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. 0.95
00:15:46.000 So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
00:15:52.000 What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were moving? 0.91
00:15:54.000 I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.
00:16:01.000 And we need the intelligence community.
00:16:03.000 We don't know what's going on.
00:16:04.000 Look at the Russian hacking.
00:16:06.000 Without the intelligence community, we wouldn't have discovered it.
00:16:09.000 Do you think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community?
00:16:13.000 I mean, this form of whether you're a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.
00:16:23.000 No video is a better argument for just a systematic purge.
00:16:27.000 We have 17 of Intel agents.
00:16:30.000 Just fire huge numbers of people at random if you need to.
00:16:33.000 I think told the CIA because it's so sinister.
00:16:36.000 Oh, well, we only know these things if the intelligence community tells us.
00:16:39.000 And you better do what the intelligence community wants.
00:16:42.000 Don't make them upset or they'll get back at you.
00:16:45.000 That's despicable.
00:16:46.000 We live in a republic.
00:16:48.000 Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.
00:16:50.000 Well, and in this instance, I would doubt that it's the CIA that maybe there's involvement of the CIA, but you look at this.
00:16:58.000 This was a, it could have been Ukrainian Intel, could have been MI6, could have been the five eyes. 0.84
00:17:06.000 You got to ask yourself, who benefits from leaking this call to sabotage a peace plan because they think that the Trump administration is being too pro-Kremlin.
00:17:16.000 But I will say it again.
00:17:17.000 I think the original 28-point plan is the more pragmatic, honest plan that has the greatest chance of success.
00:17:25.000 Europe thought it was bending the knee to the Kremlin.
00:17:29.000 I disagree.
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00:18:43.000 All right, we have to address something here.
00:18:46.000 Yeah, we get this just came in hot in from the very top.
00:18:51.000 So we'll get to the Thanksgiving part in a moment, but we're both very big fans of Erica Kirk, and she wanted us to talk about something that has just bubbled up.
00:19:01.000 Well, I actually commented on it last night, I have to say.
00:19:04.000 So this is not new to me.
00:19:05.000 Let's go ahead and play cut 258. 1.00
00:19:07.000 This is Joy Reed pushing the Deranged conspiracy theory. 1.00
00:19:12.000 It is Deranged.
00:19:13.000 That JD Vance is going to leave his wife, Usha, second lady, for Erica.
00:19:19.000 258.
00:19:21.000 They can't have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. 1.00
00:19:25.000 They're also Christian nationalists.
00:19:27.000 That ain't going to work. 0.90
00:19:28.000 That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus. 1.00
00:19:29.000 Poor Usha.
00:19:30.000 Or she's in on it, right?
00:19:31.000 And slap and tickle with Erica Kirk, the weirdest I've ever seen. 0.99
00:19:35.000 Yeah, she's like in her Tammy Faye era. 0.90
00:19:38.000 Okay.
00:19:38.000 Holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head.
00:19:42.000 Some weird.
00:19:44.000 Don't do that to Jason.
00:19:45.000 I'm going to start thinking something's going on.
00:19:47.000 Why are you holding the bag of his head?
00:19:49.000 I'm like, you're not doing that right thing.
00:19:51.000 You're supposed to be a widow. 1.00
00:19:52.000 You in leather pants. 1.00
00:19:54.000 That's not widow wear.
00:19:56.000 Could you imagine if wouldn't it be the most perfect fairy tale, MAGA fairy tale?
00:20:02.000 Yeah. 0.96
00:20:03.000 If he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu. 1.00
00:20:10.000 Golly. 1.00
00:20:12.000 Rubbing on his head. 1.00
00:20:14.000 Baby, you and then pants.
00:20:16.000 I'm annoyed.
00:20:17.000 I'm a little bit annoyed that we had the Megan Kelly thing last week and they were praising her because she was a little anti-trans.
00:20:27.000 I remember warning you. 1.00
00:20:28.000 This is a disgusting woman. 1.00
00:20:29.000 She's going to say something very disgusting very soon, how soon it was. 1.00
00:20:34.000 Yeah.
00:20:34.000 So I think what's really sick about this, and I'll tell you, is that these are three deranged, likely post-menopausal women that are flippantly turning a moment of shared grief where JD Vance, the vice president, goes out of his way to honor his friend Charlie by traveling halfway across the country to talk to students at a turning point USA event.
00:21:03.000 And he greets Erica, who just had watched this truly emotional video that the team put together, a tribute from Charlie actually to Erica, about Charlie talking about his wife.
00:21:15.000 And JD leans in and Erica will tell the story, but it says, he'd be so proud of you.
00:21:20.000 It's a moment of shared grief.
00:21:20.000 And they hug.
00:21:22.000 And they turned it into some sexualized liberal fever dream where they're projecting their own grossness and their own racism towards Usha onto really good people. 0.96
00:21:33.000 And I find that disgusting. 0.51
00:21:35.000 And by the way, it is a true insight into the spiritual core of the left.
00:21:39.000 For sure, for sure.
00:21:40.000 But she did want us to play this.
00:21:42.000 So this was Erica with Megan Kelly last weekend.
00:21:46.000 Let's play, explaining this.
00:21:47.000 266.
00:21:48.000 For those of you who know me, I never, I'm a very, I love, I hug.
00:21:55.000 It's like you're an intense hugger.
00:21:56.000 Whoever is like hating on a hug needs a hug themselves.
00:21:59.000 I will give you a free hug anytime you want a hug.
00:22:03.000 My love language is touch, if you will.
00:22:06.000 But seriously, that hug.
00:22:07.000 So I will give you a play-by-play.
00:22:11.000 They just played the emotional video.
00:22:13.000 I'm walking over.
00:22:15.000 He's walking over.
00:22:16.000 I'm starting to cry.
00:22:17.000 He says, he's so proud of you.
00:22:20.000 And I say, God bless you.
00:22:22.000 And I touch the back of his head.
00:22:23.000 Anyone who have I've hugged that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, God bless you.
00:22:31.000 That's just me.
00:22:32.000 If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead.
00:22:34.000 Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.
00:22:39.000 Yeah, and I mean, listen, she says, God bless you.
00:22:42.000 And it was actually a really beautiful, touching moment between two friends.
00:22:47.000 And just want to reiterate so much gratitude and thanksgiving for Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha, who have stood by Erica in this moment of tremendous grief and sorrow.
00:23:01.000 And she's grateful.
00:23:03.000 We all are grateful for the way that JD Vance has provided such incredible leadership.
00:23:08.000 I mean, statesmanship.
00:23:10.000 Not only was this a tremendous loss to Erica, but this was a tremendous loss to the entire country.
00:23:14.000 And JD Vance rose to the occasion in more ways than one.
00:23:17.000 But just think about this.
00:23:18.000 This is what's so gross about this moment is that it's the sneering and the derision and the jeering at the suffering of a widow just because her slain husband happened to be conservative.
00:23:28.000 And they think they have the right to completely smear this moment and Erica more directly.
00:23:35.000 I find it tremendously disgusting.
00:23:38.000 We're talking like 70 days away from her going through the unthinkable.
00:23:42.000 And this is their reaction.
00:23:44.000 That would be their reaction.
00:23:45.000 It was their reaction if you looked online the week after. 0.99
00:23:49.000 They're fundamentally gross people, fundamentally disgusting. 0.99
00:23:53.000 They are as, let's be frank, Joy Reid is as hideous on the inside as on the outside. 1.00
00:23:58.000 Well said.
00:24:01.000 Well, I think we dealt with that sufficiently.
00:24:05.000 We've been promising it, Blake.
00:24:07.000 Okay.
00:24:08.000 So there's a lot of talk about the fracturing on the right.
00:24:12.000 I would say that the enthusiasm has waned in moments.
00:24:17.000 And I think it's important that we refocus and we say, what are we thankful for?
00:24:21.000 Because actually, there's a lot to be thankful for.
00:24:23.000 You do not have President Kamala Harris.
00:24:25.000 Yeah, and it's especially important.
00:24:27.000 We talked about this a good amount yesterday.
00:24:29.000 We talked about it on Thought Crime as well.
00:24:31.000 That Charlie and the early Americans both believed it was especially important to express thanks in adversity, in difficulty.
00:24:39.000 And there's no adversity like what we've had in these past three months.
00:24:45.000 And there's also a lot of adversity on the country.
00:24:49.000 And as you say, the movement fracturing apart.
00:24:51.000 There's people who are upset about one thing or another.
00:24:54.000 There's almost a bad vibe over the country where people have decided to fixate on things they are unhappy about rather than things they are happy about.
00:25:02.000 And this can easily just become a self-perpetuating cycle.
00:25:04.000 100% right.
00:25:05.000 And so we wanted to tag, we wanted to reframe things.
00:25:09.000 We wanted to focus on this is the end of the year.
00:25:12.000 What are the things you should be grateful for?
00:25:15.000 And there are a lot of them, both personally and there are a lot of them nationally on the political level.
00:25:22.000 When Charlie was talking at the end of his Thanksgiving message last year, Charlie says, God has shown mercy upon our country.
00:25:30.000 And we've seen that mercy actually manifest.
00:25:32.000 It wasn't just a hopeful thing.
00:25:34.000 We've seen one of the things we should never forget to talk about.
00:25:38.000 We had a year ago, we had a complete wide open border with the entire third world. 1.00
00:25:43.000 We had a de facto trader, Alejandro Mayorkas, running the show, letting in gangsters from China, possible terrorists from Central Africa, everyone coming in.
00:25:54.000 And overnight, closed the door.
00:25:57.000 President Trump closed the door.
00:25:58.000 We don't have an open border anymore.
00:26:00.000 We have a real border.
00:26:01.000 And it happened so instantaneously and so totally that people allow themselves to forget that it happened.
00:26:07.000 And instead, this is the sort of grievance mindset.
00:26:11.000 It's the mindset of, I'm mad there are not enough deportations happening quickly enough.
00:26:16.000 We agree.
00:26:16.000 We would like more deportations.
00:26:18.000 We would like faster deportations.
00:26:20.000 And yet, we're attempting to do them.
00:26:23.000 We actually have the arrests happening.
00:26:25.000 We have deportations being made.
00:26:26.000 We have multi-billion dollar ICE hiring expansion to accelerate it in the following year.
00:26:33.000 We should be thankful for those things.
00:26:34.000 We should be thankful for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and the other ceasefires that have happened for the progress towards a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, the deadliest war in Europe in nearly a century.
00:26:46.000 Well, I totally agree.
00:26:48.000 And, you know, this is the conundrum that the administration faces, right?
00:26:53.000 Where they get peace in the Middle East, something everybody wanted, but then instantly, you know, you see the chatter.
00:26:59.000 And by the way, I've contributed to this, and I make, you know, I make no apologies for it, but, you know, then it's sort of like the domestic front is not getting enough attention, which is true.
00:27:11.000 Nevertheless, it's a heck of a job being the president of the United States.
00:27:16.000 I want to call out attention to one other thing that we're thankful for.
00:27:19.000 We talked about it before the show, Blake.
00:27:21.000 And, you know, you can be kind of a hard grader.
00:27:24.000 And I like that about you.
00:27:26.000 But one of the things that you gave the president and this administration really hard high marks on was some of the changes within the hiring policies of the executive branch.
00:27:35.000 And so going on.
00:27:37.000 100%.
00:27:38.000 They came in. 0.60
00:27:39.000 They actually, do we have right-wing revolution around?
00:27:42.000 There's one back there.
00:27:42.000 Yeah.
00:27:44.000 There's that sort of fantasy scene because it was written before Trump came back into office where it's describing a possible day one of the administration with this cascade of executive orders.
00:27:55.000 And that's pretty much what the admin did in real life.
00:27:58.000 Trump said, bring me pieces of paper to sign.
00:28:01.000 And some of those he signed.
00:28:02.000 He repealed orders going all the way back to LBJ that mandated DEI.
00:28:07.000 They didn't call it that at the time, but mandated DEI, affirmative action, all of these race-based, sex-based, discrimination-based quotas for how you do things and imposing them on contractors on the private sector.
00:28:20.000 And he sweeps these things away.
00:28:22.000 He goes to these universities that have just gotten unlimited money from the American people for decades, without question.
00:28:29.000 And he goes to Columbia.
00:28:30.000 He goes to Penn and he says, you guys are doing anti-American stuff. 0.98
00:28:34.000 You're allowing crazy students to harass people because they're Jewish or they're white or whatever. 0.98
00:28:39.000 And you're not allowed to do that. 0.97
00:28:41.000 You actually have to change your admissions so they're fair.
00:28:43.000 Otherwise, and you have to have other rules to make sure there's no harassment.
00:28:47.000 Otherwise, we're cutting off the money.
00:28:48.000 There was a news story just the other day.
00:28:50.000 Columbia is worried Trump will cut off their supply of international students.
00:28:54.000 So they're looking to expand their undergraduate class of mostly domestic admits up to 20%.
00:28:59.000 Wow.
00:29:00.000 So more actual Americans might get to go to Columbia.
00:29:03.000 They might get to have access to one of the greatest universities in America for Americans.
00:29:09.000 Yeah.
00:29:09.000 And that's well said.
00:29:11.000 So many little things, too.
00:29:13.000 He got rid of those dumb Biden-era names on all of our military bases where they went to Fort Bragg.
00:29:19.000 Hey, the fort that trained the men who won World War II. 0.83
00:29:24.000 And Biden says, yeah, get rid of that name and call it Fort Liberty.
00:29:27.000 I'm grateful for Pete Hegset.
00:29:28.000 And by the way, I'm grateful that Charlie fought for Pete Hegseth as hard as he did because we got rid of all of these woke standards.
00:29:37.000 We got rid of the, now we have gender-neutral combat standards, got rid of all the furries and the LGBTQ poem readings and all this stuff out of the mill. 1.00
00:29:48.000 I'm very grateful for that because my brother serves and he says it's been like night and day.
00:29:52.000 If you look, issue after issue, there's so much progress compared to a year ago.
00:29:56.000 And we'll continue this.
00:29:57.000 You have to look at where the progress has been made.
00:30:00.000 All right, I want to show the audience some of these Charlie Thanksgiving tweets that are just amazing.
00:30:06.000 Go ahead and throw up 208.
00:30:07.000 This is Charlie says, happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours.
00:30:11.000 We are thankful for the gift of salvation, our amazing children, and God's mercy on our great country this year.
00:30:17.000 Take a moment today to be grateful that we did it by God's grace alone.
00:30:21.000 We took our country back.
00:30:23.000 Here's one from November of 2020.
00:30:27.000 Throw up 209.
00:30:28.000 Jesus Christ is the king of the world.
00:30:31.000 He died for you this Thanksgiving.
00:30:33.000 Give your life to Christ.
00:30:35.000 How about this from November 2024, 217, Psalm 100, verse 4?
00:30:41.000 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
00:30:44.000 Give thanks to him.
00:30:45.000 Bless his name.
00:30:47.000 And here's yet another 219.
00:30:50.000 This is from last November.
00:30:51.000 I'm overwhelmed with gratitude this Thanksgiving.
00:30:53.000 What a time to be alive.
00:30:55.000 Charlie was an expert at being grateful with a whole movement full of people that are really good at being not so grateful, maybe being a little negative, kvetching, whatever word you want to put on it.
00:31:08.000 Charlie modeled for all of us gratitude and thanksgiving and always looking up to God, which is truly the model from the first Thanksgiving and onward, even in Abraham Lincoln's declaration of the first Thanksgiving.
00:31:22.000 It was always looking to God and being grateful to the Almighty for the providential hand that he's had on this country.
00:31:29.000 Many of the pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving weren't there, I think, even a year later.
00:31:34.000 And they did it anyway.
00:31:36.000 And our country has a history of fasting and prayer, and especially in the early days of the founders.
00:31:42.000 And so we need to model what they handed down to us, be grateful for the many blessings.
00:31:48.000 And we're going to continue talking about some of our favorite things that we're thankful for this year because there is much to be grateful for.
00:31:54.000 All right.
00:31:55.000 I'm going to say one of the things that I'm really happy about, actually.
00:31:58.000 Charlie ended up becoming really convinced about the Big Beautiful bill.
00:32:02.000 Now, I know that it was contentious.
00:32:05.000 It was a tough road to get there.
00:32:07.000 But guess what?
00:32:08.000 It funded ICE, expanded ICE, and it funded our Border Security.
00:32:13.000 Huge, huge win.
00:32:14.000 ICE was one of the few areas of the U.S. government that had not ever expanded since its founding.
00:32:21.000 So since ICE had come onto the scene, it had not grown.
00:32:24.000 They had not added personnel.
00:32:26.000 We got that done with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and I am very, very happy about that.
00:32:31.000 The ICE expansion in particular.
00:32:32.000 I'm just looking through.
00:32:33.000 I encourage you, go look up list of executive orders in the Trump administration.
00:32:37.000 Maybe even look up what Democrats are complaining about from the Trump admin.
00:32:41.000 You might find some stuff you like quite a bit.
00:32:45.000 I'm just looking through here.
00:32:46.000 We got, so as of August, at least 21 transgender hospitals or clinics had closed their doors, including the largest one in the country in Los Angeles.
00:32:57.000 Again, it's like the border.
00:32:58.000 It's almost an overnight total 180-degree swerve from something that was incredibly evil.
00:33:04.000 And now I'm so annoyed because I'll run in.
00:33:07.000 You'll see people who will say, actually, that issue was always a distraction.
00:33:11.000 That issue doesn't really matter much.
00:33:13.000 It mattered a lot.
00:33:14.000 They were mutilating children.
00:33:16.000 They still want to do it.
00:33:18.000 They're fanatical about it.
00:33:19.000 The scale of the evil, how sinister it was, the scale of the lie they had to tell, that you could just, a boy could just become a girl or the other way around was so unthinkable.
00:33:30.000 And the fact that we actually don't talk about it nearly as much anymore, other than the occasional, oh, a guy goes into a girl's locker room or something.
00:33:38.000 Things have gotten so drastically better.
00:33:42.000 And that's so heavily due to who we have in the White House, who we have making policy in this country, who we have setting the conversation.
00:33:50.000 And that is an amazing mercy on our country.
00:33:54.000 How about this?
00:33:54.000 Core inflation is down to 2.1, the lowest since Trump's first term.
00:33:59.000 Egg prices are down 53%.
00:34:01.000 I think I saw gas.
00:34:02.000 Gas is this?
00:34:03.000 Get this?
00:34:03.000 There's the cheapest gas in the country, Oklahoma, $2.50 a gallon.
00:34:07.000 But you can get it here in Phoenix at $3.19 a gallon.
00:34:10.000 $319?
00:34:11.000 That's pretty low for Phoenix.
00:34:13.000 We had, you know.
00:34:14.000 USAID.
00:34:17.000 Totally.
00:34:17.000 We dismantled this giant foreign aid apparatus that gave money to a lot of things that once people saw what it was, they did not care for it.
00:34:27.000 We have the January 6th pardons, 1,000 people who were, it was the biggest manhunt in American history to find every single person who was remotely adjacent to this event and treating it as the new Pearl Harbor.
00:34:39.000 It was this core part of the new left-wing anti-MAGA third foundation of the country myth that we basically need a new constitution to wage war on MAGA.
00:34:50.000 Pardons, it's just over with.
00:34:52.000 January 6th is done.
00:34:55.000 And we have Vice President JD Vance.
00:34:58.000 We don't have Charlie anymore.
00:35:01.000 We have the person he saw as one of his best friends in politics, one of his closest political analogs in politics who shares his thoughts about nationalism, who shares his thoughts about faith, who shares his thoughts about so many things.
00:35:13.000 And that man is the Vice President of the United States.
00:35:16.000 Every single day, he's blossoming as a communicator on X. He's hosted this program.
00:35:22.000 He's done so many things.
00:35:24.000 He's such a worthy standard bearer for the cause.
00:35:27.000 And Charlie fought so hard specifically for that.
00:35:31.000 You and I saw it, how much he campaigned for that behind the scenes throughout 24.
00:35:37.000 And we have him as this leader.
00:35:40.000 And I totally agree.
00:35:41.000 JD's the best, and he's, you know, he's got a bright future ahead.
00:35:45.000 That's all we'll say.
00:35:46.000 Here's what else I'll say.
00:35:47.000 $31 billion in tariff revenue this last month.
00:35:51.000 I know, Blake, that's not on your list, but it's on my list.
00:35:54.000 I am all about it.
00:35:55.000 If it works, if it works.
00:35:56.000 He ran on it.
00:35:58.000 He has the opportunity.
00:35:59.000 I'm grateful for it.
00:36:00.000 I'm grateful for it.
00:36:01.000 And that is...
00:36:03.000 Listen, I love trying to onshore manufacturing, and I love the trillions of dollars of pledges.
00:36:08.000 We obviously want to see those shovel-ready.
00:36:10.000 We'll close the hour with this.
00:36:11.000 We have an email from Rita who says, I am thankful for Charlie and the insight of those closest to him.
00:36:18.000 Thank you very much, Rita.
00:36:19.000 Happy Thanksgiving.
00:36:20.000 We will see you next week.
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